January Journal/Happy New Year

[PATheron]

Heading into the woods tomarrow to hopefully finish the bush Im working on across the road. That will be a real good feeling. Lot of work done. Nice trees and look foreward to seeing what they do. Semi trailer coming week after next and then Ill need to run a pump line to that. Next Im going up the road and if I can do it money wise Im going to try to get another nice 300 taps. Have to see how it goes. They are in different little stands and Ill just do one at a time untill ive done all I can do. Not really much to do at the sugar house so Im sitting pretty good as of tomarrow. All bonus now. Whats everyones feeling on how the season may go for weather. Any weather experts on here? Theron

[WF MASON]

Pretty............

[Sugarmaker]

Jim,
Colors are fine! I really do like the spell checker!!!! I was using a Google spell checker prior and it took a lot of time.

Dave Y, Yea I had been away due to computer going down. I forgot how addicting this was.
My upgrades are a tad shy of yours! WOW!

Looks like I could have used another 20-30 gallon of syrup so may be looking for a few more good taps for 2009??

The honey was still to cold to strain and the sugar house was freezing tonight so back on the trader for just a few minutes.

Chris

[mapleman3]

uggg "pretty".... the death sentence!!

Chris.. the Spell checker is with Mozilla I believe, not here.... it works great, helps me like you read about !!!

[dano2840]

going to head into the woods regardless of temp (it was 5 today, i had cut up a punky maple anticipating that i would have to work the cold days to get it all in in time) so i went to the punky wood i had stacked and split in the corner of the woods and started a fire, my hands were ok untill they finally got wet enough that the hand warmers stopped puting out so the fire was nice.
i will do the same tomarrow, aftr fiting with th black wtr pipe main line today im not too anxious to do it again tomarrow ( trust me it was a fight) ive got some older 1/2 blue mainline (older as in 20 yrs old its dark blue) it has strung up just fine on cold days so i think i will takle some of that, In the morning im meating the land owner who im going to pull into his drive way with the tractor to collect with, hes real excited some ones sugaring the woods next to his proporty. hes letting me run a pump line right through his yard to his frive, and letting me hook the vac pump cord to his house for power, and tomarrow hes meeting me at 9 a.m. to help me lift some pole logs and get the rest of the structure up on my tank storage shed at the bottom of the woods,
there a really nice family, says hes gunna come help me boil and has offered to help with what ever else i need him for, but im not going to askfor it, dont want to take advantage of a good thing

[Oaknut]

The green reminds me of spring....and sap lines running!

[Clan Delaney]

Jim,
Colors are fine! I really do like the spell checker!!!! I was using a Google spell checker prior and it took a lot of time.

Dave Y, Yea I had been away due to computer going down. I forgot how addicting this was.
My upgrades are a tad shy of yours! WOW!

Looks like I could have used another 20-30 gallon of syrup so may be looking for a few more good taps for 2009??

The honey was still to cold to strain and the sugar house was freezing tonight so back on the trader for just a few minutes.

Chris

Chris, We were without our computer all last week, and I KNEW how bad it was going to be without it! But, got 2 books read, soooo not a total loss. Good to be back online though. If you're liking Firefox, you'll love Google Chrome. Unbelievably fast (I have 11 windows open right now). I swear it's psychic. I sit down, type just "ww" in the address bar and it completes "www.mapletrader.com" without even asking. It KNOWS!!!

[3% Solution]

Clan,
Oh no, your computer has the "Maple Bug" too.
It's been bit!!!!!
Happy New Year!!

Dave

[dano2840]

maple trader is set as the home page on my web browser.tehe

[Elynch77]

Well it has been 2009 here for almost 10 and a half hours so happy new years to all. I was supposed to leave here (Khandahar) a couple days ago but air travel in and out is busy. Should make it home by the 10th though. Once I get there we are having a little late Christmas with the kids then it is all over the northeast picking up equipment. After that into the woods and time to run tubing and build something for the first year. Hope to meet some of you soon and look forward to being back with those wonderful trees.

Ethan